Handbook of Management Scales/Alliance portfolio coordination

Alliance portfolio coordination (alpha = 0.91, AVE = 0.72)

Description

An alliance management capability measure was conceptualized and operationalized. It is reflected by five underlying routines: interorganizational coordination, alliance portfolio coordination, interorganizational learning, alliance proactiveness, and alliance transformation.

Definition

Alliance portfolio coordination pertains to the routines related to the integration of all of a business unit’s R&D alliances.

Items

• We ensure an appropriate coordination among the activities of our different R&D alliances.
• We determine areas of synergy in our R&D alliance portfolio.
• We ensure that interdependencies between our R&D alliances are identified.
• We determine if there are overlaps between our different R&D alliances.

Source

• Schilke/Goerzen (2010): Alliance Management Capability: An Investigation of the Construct and Its Measurement, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 1192–1219.